Met De Kromming Mee
for ensemble

Duration: 11 minutes
Commissioned by: Pynarello

By playing independently in time, the musicians create spaces for personal expression while causing a collective sound mass. At the center of the piece is the Hammond Organ, playing long tones with shifting harmonics, shaped by gradually moving the instrument’s drawbars. These changing colours form a foundation — a kind of curve — to which the other instruments ground and relate.

Instrumentation:
Bass Clarinet
Contrabassoon
Trombone
Tuba
Hammond Organ
Percussion — Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Tuned Cowbells (F4, B♭4, C5, E♭5, A♭5)
2 Violins
Viola
Cello
Contrabass

Performed by: Pynarello

Musicians:
Jesse Faber – Bass Clarinet
Gordon Laing – Contrabassoon
Sebastiaan Kemner – Trombone
Arne Visser  – Tuba
Tony Roe – Hammond Organ
Ramon Lormans – Percussion
Lonneke van Straalen – Violin
Hadewijch Hofland – Violin
Liselot Blomaard – Viola
Geneviève Verhage – Cello
Alberto Monge Mansilla – Contrabass

Performed at:
De Doelen – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nieuwe Badkapel – The Hague, The Netherlands
Vondelkerk – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Het Cenakel – Tilburg, The Netherlands
TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht, The Netherlands

Photo by Melle Meivogel